My colleague, James Mead, has just released a new version of his mocha stubbing and mocking library for ruby. This one features rspec compatability and auto-verification of assertions. Go and get it and start ridding your rails code of fixtures right now.

James Mead has released his Mocha stubbing and mocking framework for Ruby up on rubyforge. From the README: Mocha is a library for mocking and stubbing within tests using a syntax like that of JMock and SchMock. Mocha comes in three parts: 1. Mocha – traditional mock objects with expectations and verification 2. Stubba – [...]